And deliver us from evil, by Santiago Roncagliolo

The human being exposed to the temptations of the devil made psychopathy. You cannot believe in the redemption of sins on earth, not of all at least. In the well where the worst instincts end up cooking and pushing like onslaught of lava that will destroy everything, desires and hatreds coexist. In that cocktail ferments what we would never want to be, our own monsters. A novel by Santiago Roncagliolo that assails us with the rawness of the ominous.

There is no release from evil or prayer, including carnal punishment, for those who succumb to the perdition of the soul. The worst of all is that guilt can also be inherited as the worst and most uncomfortable burden because on that there is no possible exoneration or payment with which to redeem oneself.

Even more so when every threat of forgiveness begins with a sign of the cross and an appeal to the father's name when the father is unnameable. Because it is precisely he who ends up transmitting the indelible stain to the soul ...

Rescuing religious notions fit perfectly with a plot like this. Something that reminds me of that novel by Dolores Redondo: «All this I will give you». The devil always present to offer tinsel in exchange for a soul to inhabit in order to pervert everything and reign again in the world.

Synopsis

When Jimmy learns that his paternal grandmother, Mama Tita, is ill, he decides to travel to Lima from New York to take care of her. Once there, the past that his father had tried to keep secret begins to reveal itself to him. To Jimmy's horror, everything points to his father being linked to a child sexual abuse scandal that is shaking the foundations of an influential Catholic community. A training novel about identity and cultural heritage in a globalized world and in the form of an absorbing thriller literary.

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